The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines

NOTE EDITORE

Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.

SOMMARIO

1 - Miniature Possibilities: An Introduction to the Varied Dimensions of Figurine Research2 - The Archaeology of Figurines and the Human Body in Prehistory3 - Comparative Perspectives in the Interpretation of Prehistoric Figurines4 - Predynastic Egyptian Figurines5 - Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan6 - The Sahara7 - Southern Africa8 - West Africa9 - Equatorial Africa10 - Caribbean11 - Mesoamerica - Maya12 - Mesoamerica - Olmec13 - Mesoamerica - Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines14 - Aztec Figurines15 - North America - Southwest16 - Figurines and Figural Art of the Northwest Coast17 - Inuguat: Prehistoric Human Figurines in the North American Arctic18 - South America - Andes19 - Figurine Traditions from the Amazon20 - Anatolia21 - Prehistoric Figurines in China: The Deep History of Figurative Imagery in China22 - South Asia - Indus Civilization23 - Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines of the Jomon Period of Japan24 - Clay Ideas: Levantine Neolithic Figurine Trajectories and Intellectual Threads25 - Figurines in Prehistoric Mesopotamia26 - From a Bird's Eye View: Prehistoric Human Figurines from Iran27 - Wooden Figurines of Easter Island28 - Cycladic Figurines29 - Minoan and Mycenaean Figurines30 - Palaeolithic Central and Eastern Europe31 - Neolithic Eastern and Central Europe32 - Figurines of Malta33 - Mediterranean - Cyprus34 - Prehistoric Figurines in Italy35 - Mediterranean - Sardinia36 - Southeast European Neolithic Figurines: Beyond Context, Interpretation, and Meaning37 - Palaeolithic Western and North Central Europe38 - Neolithic Figurines of Western Europe

AUTORE

Timothy Insoll is Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge from 1995 until 1998, when he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester. After becoming a Reader in 2004 and being awarded a personal chair in 2005 he moved to the University of Exeter in 2016. He is the author or editor of 16 books, three special journal issues, and numerous articles and reviews on a wide range of research topics across the discipline of archaeology, and has completed fieldwork in Mali, Ghana, western India, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199675616
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 246 x 171 mm Ø 2050 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 273 black-and-white illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 960